Environmental Impact Assessment

We offer a commercially-minded, one-stop EIA project management and coordination service

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a systematic process for assessing a project’s likely significant environmental effects. It helps to ensure that the importance of the predicted effects, and the scope for reducing them, are properly understood by the public and the relevant competent authority before it makes a decision.

The complex technical and legal framework surrounding EIA means that it is often targeted by those wishing to delay the planning process or challenge consents for major development schemes. Properly managed EIA not only reduces the risk of costly programme delays, it can also reduce design costs, as well as build costs, and result in developments that better serve the communities in which they are built.

Management & Coordination – of inputs from project team and technical specialists, as well as crossovers with other forms of environmental assessment (e.g. those required by Habitats and Birds Directives and Water Framework Directive)

Iterative Design – ensuring that the proposals respond to environmental constraints, which means mitigation can be ‘built in’ rather than ‘bolted on’ to developments

Environmental Statements – acting as lead author and editor of Environmental Statements, ensuring they are clear, coherent, and compliant with the applicable Regulations

Reviewing Environmental Statements – on behalf of local authorities or clients, including those preparing Environmental Statements for submission alongside their planning applications and those wishing to object to third party proposals on environmental grounds